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The Theotokos Kecharitomene Monastery (Greek: Θεοτόκος Κεχαριτωμένη, lit. ' Theotokos Kecharitomene', Mother of God, full of grace [ 1 ] ) was a female convent built in the early 12th century in the Byzantine capital, Constantinople , by Empress Irene Doukaina .
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...
German orthography uses "closed" compounds, concatenating nouns to form one long word. This is unlike most English compounds , which are separated using spaces or hyphens. Strictly speaking, it is made up of two words, because a hyphen at the end of a word is used to show that the word will end in the same way as the following.
Can mean either the road structure or a ship's command center, also the supporting framework that existed below the bird-like monoplane wings of the earlier examples of the Etrich Taube before World War I. Brückenleger – bridgelayer. Brummbär – "grumbling bear"; a children's word for "bear" in German. It was the nickname for a heavy ...
The High German languages (German: hochdeutsche Mundarten, i.e. High German dialects), or simply High German (Hochdeutsch [ˈhoːxˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃ] ⓘ) – not to be confused with Standard High German which is commonly also called "High German" – comprise the varieties of German spoken south of the Benrath and Uerdingen isoglosses in central and southern Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein ...
Bill Byrge, an actor who appeared in many of the “Ernest” comedy films as “Bobby,” died on Thursday at the age of 92 in Nashville, Tenn. Byrge’s cousin, Sharon Chapman, confirmed his ...
NAD+ supplements, IV drips, and injections have gained a lot of traction on social media due to their supposed anti-aging benefits. Here, doctors reveals the truth behind the trend.
In modern German, the Old and Middle High German z is now represented by either ss , ß , or, if there are no related forms in which [s] occurs intervocalically, with s : messen (Middle High German: mezzen), Straße (Middle High German: strâze), and was (Middle High German: waz). [29]